I think this is a mistake, libglvnd has a documented performance hit and should be optional.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/glvnd/libglvnd/-/issues/222 On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:23:22 +0200 Cedric Sodhi <man...@openmail.cc> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > as by our discussion on #gentoo-desktop, we would like to sort out > the historical artefact "virtual/opengl" which dates back to before > Wayland and has become somewhat inappropriate (a misnomer, not > sufficiently configurable, or redundant depending on one's > perspective). > > A quick recap of the situation, a description of the problems and > reasons why it should be deprecated, as well as the "way forward" are > documented here: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:ManDay/Deprecating_the_virtual_OpenGL_ebuild > > At this point we would like to invite everyone to enter additional > feedback - including potential problems which are not covered by the > article. When we're sure that everything has been considered, we can > move to deprecating "virtual/opengl". > > > Thank you! > Cedric >